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- From: elad@libra.math.tau.ac.il (Tsur Elad)
- Subject: Re: PP20 to ASCII?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.153424.4957@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Summary: PP20 != PP40
- Keywords: PP PowerPacker
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- Organization: School of Math & CS - Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , ISRAEL.
- References: <65306@cup.portal.com> <dgold.0jq3@basso.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Sep7.130235.1186@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:34:24 GMT
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- >Or you could just grab PP2.3B of one of the fish disks (a while ago now)
- >which should work fine. PowerPacker 4 still uses the same compression
- >algorithm as far as I can tell, it just does it considerably faster.
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- No - PowerPacker 3.0 used the same format as 2.3 (PP20). PowerPacker 4.0
- uaes a different alogarithm (PP40), however it can still decrunch PP20
- files.
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- BTW - PP includes 2 cli utilities 'crunch' & 'decrunch' (only for data
- files). I think these are PD and can be found on some fish disk.
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- Elad
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- Elad Tsur Email: elad@math.tau.ac.il
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